News New Editions and Pricing for SQL Server 2012 One big change is the move from per-processor to per-core licensing. By Kurt Mackie 11/08/2011 Microsoft is changing the pricing and SKUs for the ...

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server's Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

The Enterprise Edition will cost $25,000 per processor compared to $20,000 per processor in the SQL Server generation. The Standard Edition will cost $6,000 per processor, up from $5,000 per chip.

The six SQL Server Editions for SQL Server 2008 R2 are Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, Web, Workgroup and Express. Integration Services is included in the Datacenter and Enterprise editions.

We know a bit about the three main SQL Server 2012 editions -- Enterprise, BI (Business Intelligence) and Standard -- thanks to a new chart posted to the Microsoft SQL Server page.

With the new version of its database due out by mid-2010, Microsoft is increasing its retail prices. It also is adding two new high-end editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 to its line-up. Other news ...